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06/23/2026
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Increasing U.S. taxes on the middle class
04/12/2009
The Wall Street Journal points to the facts that Warren Buffett does not cover in his plea for higher taxes on billionaires like himself who paid only 17% in taxes in 2010. Buffett made most of his income in capital gains and dividends that are taxed at 15%. That income was already taxed at 35% as corporate income and the 15% on top of that brings the total tax to about 45%. Buffett could write the IRS a check or support taking away the deduction for charitable contributions which is how Buffett contributes to his foundations. For most of the middle class couples making $250,000 for a few years of their life- and much of it going to high university tution payments for kids- the higher taxes make a difference compared to the Buffetts of the world. This is part of the debate on taxes in the U.S. at the time of the fiscal cliff negotiations in Dec. 2012.
Grouped Articles
Americaâs Sinking Middle Class
New York Times 09/18/2013
New York Times 04/12/2009
Wall Street Journal 08/17/2011
Wall Street Journal 08/17/2011
A Disciplined and Driven 'Connect-the-Dots' Investor
Wall Street Journal 09/14/2011
Wall Street Journal 09/14/2011
John Bogle of Vanguard Funds and how he has shaped the U.S. financial industry with his ideas on investing
04/12/2009
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 09/03/2011
Burton G. Malkiel: You're Paying Too Much for Investment Help
Wall Street Journal 05/28/2013
Vanguard Takes Fund Crown From Pimco
Wall Street Journal 11/05/2013
He Doesn’t Let Money Managers Off the Hook
New York Times 04/12/2009
Who Are Your Investment Role Models?
Wall Street Journal 08/12/2014
Investors Pour Into Vanguard, Eschewing Stock Pickers
Wall Street Journal 08/21/2014
Flatter U.S. tax rates over $400,000 mean lost revenue and lacking fairness
04/12/2009
The same tax rate for incomes at over $400,000, or over $4 million or $40 million mean lost revenues and do not incorporate fairness, according to this report.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 04/12/2009
The New York Times 08/12/2016
John Bogle of Vanguard and the key role Vanguard Funds plays in the U.S. mutual fund industry
04/12/2009
Grouped Articles
John Bogle, Vanguard's Founder, Is Too Worried to Rest
New York Times 08/11/2012
He Doesn’t Let Money Managers Off the Hook
New York Times 04/12/2009
Who Are Your Investment Role Models?
Wall Street Journal 08/12/2014
Investors Pour Into Vanguard, Eschewing Stock Pickers
Wall Street Journal 08/21/2014
Wall Street Journal 01/08/2015
Investors Poured Record $236 Billion Into Vanguard Last Year
Wall Street Journal 01/06/2016
The gender gap in China
04/11/2009
Grouped Articles
Chinese Bias for Baby Boys Creates a Gap of 32 Million
New York Times 04/11/2009
Paul Volcker's views on solutions to the global economic crisis.
04/11/2009
Grouped Articles
Volcker Assumes Smaller-Than-Expected Role With Obama
Wall Street Journal 04/11/2009
Volcker Pushes for Limits on Banks' Trading Activities
Wall Street Journal 02/03/2010
Financial Bill Would Create World Model, Volcker Says
New York Times 06/09/2010
Giving In on Trading, Banks Focus on Other Losses
New York Times 06/14/2010
Paul Volcker Pushes for Reform, and Regrets His Past Silence
New York Times 07/09/2010
Volcker on His 'Rule'— Keep It Broad
Wall Street Journal 10/28/2010
Gaps in perception of India's anti-corruption movement as seen in the U.S. media and by Indian public opinion
04/10/2009
India's Congress government version of events presents it an issue of constitutional sovereignty. Indian public opinion sees it as truly an issue of controlling widespread corruption. Freedom of the press and freedom of assembly are guaranteed in India by the constitution and is exercized continuously since 1947. Corruption at all levels in India in the delivery of public services and in the development of infrastructure has to be experienced to be fully grasped. It acts as a perpetual tax on the middle class and the poor. One has to carefully read the draft of the anticorruption bill drafted by the Congress government, and understand how things function locally today, to realize that it is designed to make little difference in the current state of things. Designed that way because it is a silent but no less explicit intent of the government, political parties, the bureaucracy and interests that have advantages with the existing system, to preserve the status quo. Activist Hazare's bill is designed to give the anti corruption body called a Lokpal the powers it needs to be effective. The prime minister could be exempted but the bureaucracy at all levels and members of parliament and state legislatures if immune to this kind of oversight, would in a developing country with the local conditions of India, render it meaningless. Because this is where the corruption resides. Limits of overreach by the Lokpal come from the body simply acting as a referral system which sends the cases to the judiciary. In doing so constitutional powers are actually vested in the judiciary and the Supreme Court as the final arbiter. India's system of government does not confer sovereignty to parliament- as the Congress government contends- but divides powers between the President, Parliament, and the Judiciary, with a system of checks and balances as in the U.S. Because the current system has delivered a high rate of growth there may be even a tolerance for corruption as a necessary evil as practiced in China. Conditions are differen
Grouped Articles
Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/2011
India's Main Opposition Party Names Candidate for Prime Minister
Wall Street Journal 09/13/2013
Campaign for Prime Minister in India Gets Off to Violent Start
New York Times 09/17/2013
New Indian Party Shakes Up Politics
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2013
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/2013
Big Indian States Deal Poll Setback to Congress Party
Wall Street Journal 03/07/2012
The Lokpal bill in India for an anti-corruption agency with powers
04/10/2009
Grouped Articles
Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/2011
New Indian Party Shakes Up Politics
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2013
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/2013
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/2009
Indian State in Mourning After Graft Conviction
New York Times 10/04/2014
Upstart Party Scores Victory in India State Elections
Wall Street Journal 02/11/2015
Paul Krugman on the economic progress made by the U.S. when banking was boring
04/10/2009
Krugman says the U.S. has gone through three periods for banking. The period between World War I and 1929 was a period when banking and debt made up a a large portion of the economy. The Great Depression changed this and banking returned to being boring with bankers paid only somewhat more than other professions. During the 1990's the restrictions on banking were lifted leading to the global financial crisis of 2008. The changes needed have not taken place and banking continues to operate much like before the crisis, says Krugman. A great deal of the economic progress made and rise in average incomes was accomplished in the postwar period when banking was boring.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 04/10/2009
Bill Keller on the Anti-Corruption Movement in India
04/10/2009
Bil Keller talks to Kiran Bedi of the Anti Corruption Movement.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 10/30/2011
India and America, Two Peas in a Pod
New York Times 11/08/2011
New Indian Party Shakes Up Politics
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2013
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/2013
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/2009
Defying Expectations in India, Modi Begins Key Trip to U.S.
New York Times 09/25/2014
Protests against corruption and calls for government action in India
04/10/2009
Grouped Articles
Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/2011
A Quick Guide to the Lokpal Bills
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2011
India Supreme Court Bars Felons From Legislatures
Wall Street Journal 07/12/2013
New Indian Party Shakes Up Politics
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2013
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/2013
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/2009
The solar power industry in the U.S.
04/10/2009
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 05/24/2013
BP Looks Outside for Solar Cells in Bid to Drive Down Its Costs
Wall Street Journal 04/10/2009
New Jersey Outshines 48 of Its Peers in Solar Power
Wall Street Journal 07/31/2009
New York Times 09/16/2009
Solar Panel Makers Seek Local Ties
Wall Street Journal 11/18/2009
Wall Street Journal 12/23/2009
Letters to the Editors of the Wall Street Journal on the trading losses at JP Morgan Chase, the Volcker Rule and Glass-Steagall repeal
04/10/2009
Losses at Societe Generale by a single trader with losses over $7 billion in 2010, followed by a novice traders loss of $2 billion at UBS in 2011, and the ongoing loss at Chase of $2 billion in 2012, point to the dangers facing the banking systems in Europe and the U.S. without adequate regulatory oversight over risktaking by banks.
Grouped Articles
Volcker Rule to Curb Bank Trading Proves Hard to Write
Wall Street Journal 09/10/2013
The Volcker Rule on Bank Risks Approaches Its Final Edits
New York Times 12/03/2013
New York Times 04/10/2009
The Lessons of JPMorgan's Trading Loss
New York Times 05/14/2012
Hedge or Bet? Parsing the J.P. Morgan Trade
Wall Street Journal 05/16/2012
Wall Street Journal 05/18/2012
The $250,000 income figure in U.S. president Obama's plans for taxes on the rich
04/12/2009
The cutoof below which Democrats propose permanently extending the Bush era tax cuts in fiscal cliff negotiations.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 04/12/09
Obamaâs Tax Plan Would Spare Many Affluent Families
New York Times 12/06/12
President Delivers a New Offer on the Fiscal Crisis to Boehner
New York Times 12/17/12
Boehner Weighs 'Cliff' Backup Plan
Wall Street Journal 12/18/12
On the Left, Seeing Obama Giving Away Too Much, Again
New York Times 01/01/13
New York Times 01/03/13
Fairness and equity issues in the U.S. tax system
04/12/2009
Grouped Articles
New York Times 04/12/09
California Property Taxes Can Vary Wildly in Silicon Valley
New York Times 02/23/12
The Case for Raising Top Tax Rates
New York Times 03/27/12
To Reduce Inequality, Tax Wealth, Not Income
New York Times 11/18/12
New York Times 11/29/12
Most Americans Face Lower Tax Burden Than in the 80s
New York Times 11/29/12
Vanguard's Bogle on the global financial crisis of 2008 and the role required of money managers of institutional funds
04/12/2009
Grouped Articles
He Doesn’t Let Money Managers Off the Hook
New York Times 04/12/09
Investors Pour Into Vanguard, Eschewing Stock Pickers
Wall Street Journal 08/21/14
Paul Volcker's fading influence on the Obama administration.
04/11/2009
Former Fed chairman Paul Volcker added to the credibility of the incoming Obama administration during the early days. Now his advice about the need to reinstate a wall between banking for taking federally insured deposits and making loans, from investment banking's trading in securtities, is beig ignored. He does not think regulation will be effective. One reason our system does not work thay way. Influential bankers can water down financial regulation in Congress.
Grouped Articles
Volcker Assumes Smaller-Than-Expected Role With Obama
Wall Street Journal 04/11/09
Volcker Fails to Sell a Bank Strategy
New York Times 10/21/09
Fed Chooses Staff Economist as Head of Bank Supervision
Wall Street Journal 10/21/09
BOE's King: Big Banks Should Get Broken Up
Wall Street Journal 10/21/09
Britain and Its Central Bank Disagree on Banking Laws
New York Times 10/22/09
Fed's Tarullo Shakes Up Bank Rules
Wall Street Journal 10/26/09
Donald Kohn, former U.S. Fed vice chairman under Bernanke
04/11/2009
Grouped Articles
The Path of Kohn: Crisis Changes a Fed Vet
Wall Street Journal 04/11/09
Corruption in iron ore mining in India
04/10/2009
Grouped Articles
Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/11
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/13
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/09
China’s Slowdown Hits Price of Iron Ore
Wall Street Journal 12/01/14
Upstart Party Scores Victory in India State Elections
Wall Street Journal 02/11/15
Indiaâs Widening Iron Ore Scandal Hurts Stocks
New York Times 08/01/11
India: corruption and fraud investigations 2010-14
04/10/2009
Grouped Articles
Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/11
India Seeks to Overhaul a Corporate World Rife With Fraud
New York Times 08/15/13
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/13
Behind a Real-Estate Empire, Ties to India's Gandhi Dynasty
Wall Street Journal 04/18/14
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/09
India Allocated Coal Fields to Private Companies Illegally, Top Court Rules
New York Times 08/25/14
Vinod Rai, Comptroller and Auditor General of India, and efforts to fight corruption in India
04/10/2009
Grouped Articles
Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/11
India Supreme Court Bars Felons From Legislatures
Wall Street Journal 07/12/13
New Indian Party Shakes Up Politics
Wall Street Journal 12/02/13
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/13
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/09
India Allocated Coal Fields to Private Companies Illegally, Top Court Rules
New York Times 08/25/14
India: alleged corruption in coal block mining licenses
04/10/2009
Grouped Articles
Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/11
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/13
Privatising Coal India: Powering the tiger
Economist 10/23/10
India Journal: What Coal India Can Do for the Country
Wall Street Journal 11/01/10
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/09
India Allocated Coal Fields to Private Companies Illegally, Top Court Rules
New York Times 08/25/14
India- lack of transparency and fairness in auctions of telecommunications bandwidths.
04/10/2009
2008 auctions were rigged according to the Auditor-General's report. The loss to the governmet of $38 billion. The department of Telecommunications is described as failing miserably to do the due diligence. Adds to the general sense of corruption in the handling of governmental affairs.
Grouped Articles
Indian PM slams anti-corruption activist as protests over arrest spread - The Washington Post
Washington Post 08/17/11
Indian Parliament Passes Bill Forming Anticorruption Agency
New York Times 12/18/13
Corruption Mars Image of Change in India Elections
Wall Street Journal 04/10/09
China Slips in Corruption Perceptions Report
New York Times 12/02/14
Upstart Party Scores Victory in India State Elections
Wall Street Journal 02/11/15
India Auction for Cellphone Spectrum Was Rigged, Report Says
New York Times 11/16/10
The Glass-Steagall Act, its repeal and "too big to fail" in 2011-2014
04/10/2009
Grouped Articles
Weâre All Still Hostages to the Big Banks
New York Times 08/25/13
Soothing Words on 'Too Big to Fail' But With Little Meaning
New York Times 12/11/13
New York Times 04/10/09
Big-Bank Pioneer Now Seeks Breakup
Wall Street Journal 07/25/12
Sandy Weill Regrets Breaking Glass
Wall Street Journal 07/26/12
Weill Calls for Splitting Up Big Banks
New York Times 07/25/12
Narendra Modi as candidate to lead the BJP party in India's 2014 general elections
04/10/2009
Narendra Modi is the chief minister of Gujarat state in India, where he has implemented a strategy for developing infrastructure, roads, power plants, and attracting foreign investment in the automobile and other industries. With India's slowing growth and corruption in government he is now the choice of the BJP party to run against the ruling Congress party in the 2014 general election. His slogan is minimum government and maximum governance. He is popular in Gujarat state for running a clean administration and generating a decade of high economic growth in the state with a population of about 60 million.
Grouped Articles
India's Main Opposition Party Names Candidate for Prime Minister
Wall Street Journal 09/13/13
India's Rising Hindu Nationalist
Wall Street Journal 09/16/13
Campaign for Prime Minister in India Gets Off to Violent Start
New York Times 09/17/13
Six Killed in Explosions Ahead of India Campaign Rally
Wall Street Journal 10/28/13
India's Ruling Party Badly Beaten in State Elections
Wall Street Journal 12/08/13
India's Ruling Party Stumbles as Opponent Modi Marches On
New York Times 12/08/13
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